ResPublicae.eu admin @praetor@respublicae.eu

@djvdq @milan_zimmermann And BTW Jan Albrecht is also at @janalbrecht. (I don't remember why I didn't redirect our mirror of the account.)

@djvdq @milan_zimmermann Indeed, searching "@vonderleyen" or " @ vonderleyen@ respublicae.eu" (without spaces) should give you a search result with a follow button. Sometimes the research may fail; if so, try again after a minute.

We were down about 15 min while experimenting with some options to reduce the size of our virtual machine at #Scaleway. (We didn't succeed.)

Crossposting for the busiest ~50 accounts using the privacydev Nitter instance has worked surprisingly well for a few months. (Help welcome to fix the RSS rendering issues which fail to preserve mentions and hashtags: https://github.com/robertoszek/pleroma-bot/issues/131 .)

A few days ago, crossposting stopped as media retrieval fails. We're now crossposting without media.

Here are some charts about Linux resources, courtesy node-exporter, otel-collector, Prometheus and Grafana.

#ResPublicae was down for about 5 minutes as a service was killed by an OOM. Mastodon services spontaneously shut down and had to be manually restarted.

No further action is deemed necessary as we already have more memory than usually necessary. Shifting to a smaller instance would probably increase the need for manual work like this.

To reduce costs (and possibly save energy), we're experimenting with moving older files to cold storage.

For now the simplistic approach is a #Scaleway object storage lifecycle rule to move all attachments older than 180 days to the Glacier class. It's not possible for such rules to target only originals, or mp4 files, or files above a certain size.

In a few months we can consider whether to refine this approach. Feedback appreciated.

#MastoAdmin #ResPublicae

@platlas Yes they all are. https://respublicae.eu/@praetor/111935052271756398

@amgine Indeed the current situation isn't sustainable.
https://respublicae.eu/@praetor/111935052271756398

Let's hope #EUVoice gets funding from the Commission, at least!

"#Nitter is dead", proclaimed the maintainer after yet more #TwitterAPI changes.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155#issuecomment-1913361757

Some instances managed to survive a bit longer but now we're suspending updates of #ResPublicae accounts. We'll reassess in a little while.

@mapto Thanks for asking, here it is: @EUprosecutor.

If you want to code in Python you can help by patching PleromaBot: https://github.com/robertoszek/pleroma-bot/issues/131

At the moment I'm not planning to expand #ResPublicae but I'll have to decide what to do with new people after the Parliament elections. It will be less depressing to put resources into it if the mirrors actually work. ;)

Since 2023-08-10, our mirrors almost always failed.

We're now trying the #Nitter instance by the excellent @nolog as source. (Trying to avoid excess load.)

Please support them and the Nitter developers if you can:
https://nolog.cz/en/support/
https://liberapay.com/zedeus

#ResPublicae accounts now have over 70,000 followers (not unique).

Under the hood, Mastodon keeps track of many more users who for some reason interacted with our instance. Over time that becomes rather wasteful, so we've finally activated regular data purging. Such #MastoAdmin hygiene saves us 200 GB in storage.

Even better, we no longer have to worry about holding potentially personal data about thousands of users for no reason. Our #privacy policy now looks better.
https://respublicae.eu/terms